[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

As an unmarried woman, Octavia certainly could not participate in the referendum, but it was not difficult to get an appointment for Titus.

Not to mention that Marcus Barbatus has a certain influence in the Senate and the House of Commons, Messalina's queen status alone is enough to bypass Claudius' will and the referendum, and go to Appoint some low-level officials who the freemen can do.

Thanks to the great love of the female elders, it was not difficult for Octavia to get Titus the appointment of finance envoy, but it was rare to pull Pallas from this position so that Titus could replace him.

Fortunately, Claudius' group of freed slave secretaries had been fighting openly and secretly for a long time, so many people were willing to help Octavia in this regard.

Especially Narcissus, who had been fighting with Pallas for a long time, the moment he got Octavia's instruction, he couldn't wait to see Pallas' appearance like a bereaved dog.

"I thought that you who regained your freedom would dedicate your body and mind to me with gratitude." Claudius learned that Narcissus found little Agrippina's private house from Pallas's private house. When talking about personal belongings, he couldn't help but sneer and sneer: "It's really a scumbag, I guess my good niece opened her thighs to Pallas a lot."

"Not only little Agrippina, we also found this in Pallas' business place." Facing Claudius' anger, Narcissus handed over a private account book without losing the opportunity, pointing to The upper right corner of a separate page reads: "This is a bribe from Appius Hiranus to Pallas, a total of 50 sesterces. And Scylla got a shocking gift from a certain florist." According to the news, Appius Hiranus's grandson, Pukius Hiranus, is dating Yulia Livia, and..."

Narcissus hesitated just right, causing Claudius to frown deeply: "What else?"

"Little Ukrania's ex-husband, Gnaeus Pompey, is very dissatisfied with you for forcing him to divorce little Ukrania, so he has recently gotten close to Appius Hiranus. "Narcissus did not fabricate many charges for Pallas, but cleverly described Pallas' network as a huge conspiracy against Claudius.

As we all know, Claudius has only three legal children, and the only ones recognized by the Claudius family and included in the list of wills are only a pair of children born to the fourth wife Messalina.

Ugrania the Great's daughter was born illegitimately five months after her divorce from Claudius.

In order to let her only daughter have a better future, Ugrania the Great played tricks, got Claudius drunk, and then hugged Ugrania to Claudius In front of him, Claudius hugged little Ukrania in front of all the guests.

Claudius was very angry about this, but at that time Appius Hiranus was the consul of Tiberius, and Claudius' elder brother Germanicus' family tragedy.The powerless and powerless Claudius could only swallow this breath, and after he was airborne by Caligula as consul, he expelled little Ukrania from the house and left her to fend for herself .

The desperate little Ukrania can only go to her mother and grandfather.Appius Hiranus treated this badly-born granddaughter pretty well. The first husband he chose for her was Gnaeus Pompey, and he knew who he was related to just by hearing the name.

After Claudius became emperor, Gnaeus Pompey saw that Claudius had only two legal daughters, so he moved to let Claudius adopt him and establish him as the heir, but the new Claudius, who avenged his old hatred, ordered a divorce with little Ukrania, and then crossed little Ukrania from the list of wills, and chose a prominent ancestor for the nominal eldest daughter. , but now the aristocratic husband who is almost engaged in a lowly industry - Faustus Sulla.

At that time, Appius Hiranus also advised Claudius not to do this.

After all, there was no guarantee that the two-year-old Octavia would survive to adulthood and leave offspring.

Moreover, history has proved that the inheritance risk of the stove-keeper is greater than that of the only child.

Julius Caesar and Augustus are two good examples.

This kind of controversy has been quarreling until the No. 20 day when Claudius became emperor, Messalina gave birth to Britannicus in the palace, and then it came to an end.

In Claudius' view, the contact between Gnaeus Pompey and Appius Hiranus is the best proof of his undying desire for the throne.

With little need for Narcissus to say anything more, Claudius sentenced them both to death.

As for Pallas...

Claudius glanced at Narcissus suspiciously, but then he thought that the other party did not have any official position, but he wholeheartedly helped him deal with trivial matters in life and government affairs, so he put the protruding Suspicion was pushed down a little bit, until Messalina rushed into the palace in a rage, Claudius pushed his suspicion of Narcissus to the back of his mind, and turned to deal with the Hiranus family .

And Pallas who betrayed him.

"My friend in the hairdressing salon broke the news to me that Yulia Livia is pregnant, and Pukius Hiranus is going to secretly marry Yulia Livia. Your two The nieces are all careless sluts, white-eyed wolves raised with good intentions, just tell me what to do now!" Messalina thought of what her lover told her, that Claudius had an affair with Nero After seeing the news, I couldn't help but feel disgusted towards Claudius and sister Agrippina: "Don't tell me that you want Yulia Livia to give birth to a son."

"Isn't it enough for you to fuck a nephew, and you have to raise another one?" Messalina scolded Claudius, scratching his old face every word: "You are not Caesar, don't put Everything I finally got is given to a guy who sells and ass."

"Pay attention to your words, Messalina. As a wife and queen, you should maintain the most basic respect for me." As he grew older, Claudius, who lacked energy, became difficult to control his wife, The meeting between the two was a battle of needles: "Where did you hear that Yulia Livia was going to marry Pukius Hiranus? Without the instruction of my guardian, she Dare?"

"Whether she dares or not, as long as you don't turn her into a reed, the pack of wolves staring at the throne will desire her as desperately as God Pan." Messalina's cruelty is far stronger than that of Wu Da. Via, and she doesn't pretend to be a good person like Octavia, so her actions are extraordinarily simple and rude: "I have already asked someone to drag Julia Livia out of her house. This kind of woman, If you don’t kill her, don’t you wait for others to take off your crown, or just like how you dealt with Caligula, we will all be hacked to death with swords?”

The author has something to say:

When Caesar's will was announced, many people maliciously rumored that Octavian was Caesar's molester and gained political power by selling his ass.

Pan and the Reed: Legend has it that Pan fell in love with a nymph named Xyrenx and pursued her persistently even after being rejected by her many times, causing the nymph to pray to the river god to turn her into a nymph. Reed came to hide from Pan.In ancient Roman mythology, God Pan is a very sexual and lustful image, so the ancient Romans often used Heracles and God Pan to express that a man is very naive (you know).Messalina is saying this here, referring to those who want to be crowned will be eager to let Yulia Livia bear their children.

In ancient Roman law, if a man picked up a baby in public, it meant that he recognized him as the baby's father and allowed him to join his family.Although the other party's inheritance rights or other things will be removed for various reasons later, in terms of social consciousness, the other party will still be recognized as belonging to this family.Therefore, as long as Yulia Livia's illegitimate children are recognized by their fathers, they will be classified as members of the patrilineal family, and they will also have the right to inherit the throne.

I originally made a family tree for everyone, but I don't know how to post it, so forget it, let me briefly tell you about Octavia and Nero's lineage.

The first generation: Augustus, Cabin Via, Livia Drusula (Octavian's third wife), Mark Anthony

The second generation: Julia Caesares (the only daughter of Augustus and his second wife); Marcela Jr. (the second daughter of Via the Cabin and Marcellus) Antonia the Great (Via the Cabin and the second wife Mark Anthony's eldest daughter), Antonia Jr. (the second daughter of Via the Cabin and Mark Anthony); Nero Claudius Drusula (the second son of Livia Drusula and her ex-husband, Jr. Antonia's husband); Lucius (second son of Marc Anthony and his second wife Fulvia)

The third generation: Germanicus (the eldest son of Nero Claudius Drusula and Little Antonia), Claudius [Father of Octavia] (Nero Claudius Derusula) Rusula and Antonia the younger son); Agripina the Great (youngest daughter of Julia Caesares and Agrippa); Marcus Barbatus [Octavia's grandfather ] (Son of Marcella Jr. and Marcus Valerius Marcellus, but I don't know which one); The eldest daughter of Lucius should have been adopted into the Lepidus family and became the stove-keeper), Aenobarbus [Nero's father] (the only son of Antonia and Lucius)

Fourth generation: Caligula (third son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Great), Agrippina the Younger [Mother of Nero] (son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Great second daughter), Julia Livia (youngest daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Great), Messalina [mother of Octavia] (Marcus Barbatus and Dominia Lepidus's only daughter)

After checking the information for a day yesterday, I found out that Nero's father is actually the younger brother of Octavia's grandmother.However, among the grandchildren of Augustus, only Julia the Younger and Agrippina the Great left their children, and all the grandchildren died young.Then little Julia had a son and a daughter. The son married Caligula's eldest sister Lucilla, and was finally executed for the "Three Daggers" alliance.The daughter is Emilia, who has three sons and two daughters, but because her husband fought against Augustus to the death, these children lost the right to inherit the throne, and then the Lepidus family provoked three emperors in a row (Augustus Tiberius, Caligula), in order to protect himself, after Augustus disinherited Emilia's children, he expelled them from this line, and then adopted the little Dominia by blood .Lepida is the stove guard girl. (The above are all excerpts from foreign documents, there are still doubts, don't worry about it), and married Emilia's eldest daughter to the younger brother of the first emperor in the year of the Four Emperors (the difference between the two is at least 30 years, and after marriage Not long before being widowed until the time of Titus.)

By the way, Emilia's second daughter, Julia Lepidus, was once Claudius' fiancée. Later, under the force of Augustus, the two broke off their engagement.